Justice requires us to remember that when any citizen denies his fellow, saying, ‘His color is not mine,’ or ‘His beliefs are strange and different,’ in that moment he betrays America, though his forebears created this nation.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONI’ll tell you what’s at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.
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At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man’s unending search for freedom.
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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems – the answer for all the problems of the world – come to a single word. That word is “education.”
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I am proud to be a member of a party that opens its doors to all men–and closes its hearts to none.
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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.
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In a nation of millions and a world of billions, the individual is still the first and basic agent of change.
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Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
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Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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Jerry Ford is so dumb he can’t walk and chew gum at the same time. He’s a nice fellow, but he spent too much time playing football without a helmet.
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This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies.
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It’s too bad, but the way American people are, now that they have all this capability, instead of taking advantage of it, they’ll probably just piss it all away.
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If you’re I politics and you can’t tell when you walk into a room who’s for you and who’s against you, then you’re in the wrong line of work.
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